Program areas at Community Shares of Colorado
Community giving campaign: the Community giving campaign is the organization's primary program and is dedicated to raising funds for nonprofit organizations via workplace giving campaigns. The organization partners with businesses who invite employees to give either a cash gift or donation from each paycheck. The Community giving campaign includes partnering with businesses to plan and implement giving campaigns, offering the option of making paycheck contributions or cash gifts to individual employees, and identifying potential new workplace partners.distributions: the calculation and disbursement of workplace contributions to nonprofit organizations, along with the distribution of campaign reports to nonprofit organizations.
Building Community: the building Community program leverages the organization's relationships with charities, donors, and businesses to philanthropy across the state.community education includes speaking to civid and other groups about the importance of philanthropy, nonprofit leadership and volunteer opportunities, and referrals to nonprofit agencies providing direct services available in colorado.the partnership initiatives under this program area are csr solutions of Colorado and the civic 50 Colorado to provide resources, support, and reporting for best practices in corporate social responsibility in Colorado.
Colorado combined campaign: effective january 1, 2014, the organization began administering the Colorado combined campaign (ccc). The ccc was authorized in june 1988 by executive order no. 86, establishment of the Colorado statye employee advisory committee on charitable giving, to conduct an annual solicitation of state of Colorado employees, which is known as the Colorado combined campaign. The organization serves as the principal combined fundraising manager for the ccc and, by contract, collects all public support and charges the ccc for campaign and administrative expenses.